hi,

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 07:52:44PM +0000, mel kravitz wrote:
> Trying to build a custom kernel on an i386 , running 1.5.2 fails at
> ../../../../arch/i386/isa/npx.c
> /tmp/cc07wnmas: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/cc07wnmas:314:   no such instruction 'fxsave'
> ***Error Code 1
> Stop
> How  to fix?

from src/UPDATING:

20010803:
        (i386 only): i386 kernel now uses new instructions like fxsave which
        old gas doesn't understand.  To build the kernel successfuly, you
        need to build and install new gas (gnu/usr.bin/gas.new).

regards,


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